Chapter ONE - Weebly

cordwainer backed away from the man, terror in his
eyes, his chest rising and falling rapidly. Darrow turned
slowly, and Ethan saw that the knife Mackintosh had
retrieved jutted from the conjurer’s back, just below his
shoulder blade. Blood darkened the man’s coat, but
only for a few seconds.
Ethan had time to shout a warning to Mackintosh,
but it did little good. The blood disappeared, and
Mackintosh’s coat burst into flames. The cordwainer
dropped to the ground and began to roll from side to
side. Adams and Otis leaped to his aid, batting at the
flames with their hands.
Darrow reached back and pulled out the knife. The
blood on the blade caught the firelight, and then it, too,
was gone. Ethan braced himself for another assault, but
it didn’t come. Darrow, he realized, had used the blood
to heal the wound on his back.
Ethan drew on the fire for another illusion spell.
Two, actually. With the first he sent Anna down the
road. With the second, he conjured again the image of
Greenleaf and the men of the watch.
The illusions advanced on Darrow with raised